Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering : illustrated with four thousand engravings on wood ; in two volumes (1873)
D. Appleton and Company · New York : D. Appleton and Co. · leaf 748
ought-iron wedges, and the cement well filled in between them with a square blunt-pointedchisel, called a caulking-chisel; the cement is stopped from being driven through by a hoop of thin ironplaced inside the pipe or retort to be thus operated upon, which is afterwards removed. A consider-able… … 746 GAS. a species of pyrites, all the parts of which adhere strongly together. Mr. Watt found that the cementis improved by adding some fine sand from the grindstone trough. A very economical joint for the retort mouth-piece is made of five parts of fine clay, and one part olthe mixture just…
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